Mary Lam

Mary Lam

Mary Lam

Head of Hong Kong

+852 2899 0127

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Ms. Lam is a Managing Associate. She is responsible for non-partner level legal professional staff in Hong Kong, including the recruitment and development of trainee solicitors, law student interns, legal executives and paralegals. She has a broad range of experience in both corporate, regulatory and dispute resolution matters.

Experience

Ms. Lam advises banks, private equity sponsors, private clients and businesses in a wide range of corporate, securities, commercial and insolvency matters on both a contentious and non-contentious basis. She has represented clients in the establishment of private equity funds, including Hong Kong limited partnership funds, and in M&A, including share sale and purchases and asset sale and purchases. She has significant experience with M&A involving regulated financial services firms and with M&A involving complex insolvency issues. She has advised on transactional and non-transactional regulatory and compliance issues and on debt restructurings, including through voluntary workouts and schemes of arrangement.

Ms. Lam has represented clients in commercial disputes, asset recovery and regulatory enforcement action. Her experience includes advising on contractual disputes, including M&A related disputes, cross-border asset recovery in banking fraud, as well as recovery of funds lost in cyber fraud. Her experience spans both litigation before the Hong Kong courts as well as arbitral proceedings before the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). She has advised clients in regulatory investigations and proceedings including those brought by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, JD (Gold Scholarship)

Admissions

Hong Kong SAR

Languages

English
Cantonese Chinese
Mandarin Chinese